Posted on August 26th, 2010 by Zenweezil
Huffington Post puts together a series of stories where social media has lead to arrests and firings:
Arrested Over Twitter: 8 Tweets That Got People SNAGGED
Twitterers and non-Twitterers alike often grumble that the many tweets are fluffy nonsense–posts about what we ate for breakfast, complaints about the weather, and other…
Arrested Over Facebook: 19 Posts That Got [...]
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Posted on August 24th, 2010 by Zenweezil
I work hard. I get up in the morning and go to my office and work all day. Then after dinner and time with the family I go back to work until the wee hours of the morning before I crash and do it all over again the next day. I have a full-time job, [...]
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Posted on August 23rd, 2010 by Zenweezil
Angie Cromar’s doctors were shocked when her first ultrasound revealed two babies at slightly different stages of development.
“[He said] I’m five weeks and four days in one, and six weeks and one day in the other,” Cromar said.
Cromar, 34, knew she was born with a rare condition called didelphys, meaning she had two uteruses, but [...]
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Posted on August 12th, 2010 by Zenweezil
Today was like a fantasy for Pacers fans around the world (yes, they do actually have fans all over the world). Today, the Pacers made a dream trade and landed a young, talented point guard in Darren Collison. Collison averaged 12.4 points and 5.7 assists as a rookie last season with the Hornets, including 18.8 [...]
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Posted on August 5th, 2010 by Zenweezil
Kudos to Bill Gates and Warren Buffet for not only pledging to give away the majority of their combined $90 billion dollars in personal wealth, but also for encouraging 38 other ridiculously wealthy folks to publicly pledge to give away theirs as well.
Click here to see the list, and you can click on each name [...]
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Posted on August 2nd, 2010 by Zenweezil
Is it me, or does it seem like everything is bad for you these days?
Just yesterday I discovered that even store receipts are dangerous – as they have been found to contain alarming levels of BPA for some reason. You can read the full article here, but basically it just says that receipts from [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2010 by Zenweezil
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Posted on July 26th, 2010 by Zenweezil
The Vatican today made the attempted ordination of women one of the gravest crimes under church law, putting it in the same category as clerical sex abuse of minors. Seriously? How is allowing women to answer the divine call to become priests as sinful as molesting a child?
I have no idea what Biblical reasoning [...]
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Posted on June 20th, 2010 by Zenweezil
A year ago today, an innocent woman was shot and killed. Within hours the whole world saw the video of her bleeding out on the streets of Iran. Her name was Neda Agha-Soltan and she became a symbol of the human cost to the protests against the oppressive and violent Iranian regime that clearly rigged [...]
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Posted on May 28th, 2010 by Zenweezil
I am saddened to hear that Gary Coleman died today at age 42.
I know he had a troubled adulthood, but his childhood years as an entertainer were influential. So much so my daughter says Arnold Jackson’s famous catch phrase “What’chya talkin’ about, Willis?”, even though she was born over 20 years after Diff’rent Strokes [...]
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